Survey: Where did you find your oldest coin?

[atomicscott]

Hi Everybody!
Just wanted to see where everybody found there oldest coin. Please state what year/coin was your oldest, as well as list country, state, city and location. Not exact location, ie. park, homestead, battleground, farm, etc... Hope to get a good cross-section, so thank you so much for your participitation! Scott

 

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[GrizLeeBear]

I'm sorry, it was too long ago to remember. Probably in the sixties.

 

[63bkpkr]

Howdy AS,
My oldest find was an 1800's V nickel, it is packed away so I can't get at the exact date. It was found outside of Auburn California and I was hiking out of an old mining works and noticed this slug from an electric box laying in the trail. Typical of me I picked it up and then saw it was a V nickel. Good luck with the survey...............63bkpkr

 

[Chug And Red]

Vancouver washington School Yard Very Near our Home!!!! V nickle Dont remember the Date Will Get back to you HH Chug

Here it is But wait I think Im Missing One HH Chug

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/232179-i-found-v-nickle.html

 

[Minrelica]

1885 "V" nickel in Minneapolis

 

[Tom_in_CA]

1750's spanish reale in CA.

 

[scrapdoggie]

1817 Large Copper Cent, Franklin Ma, right in my back yard about 4 inches deep.

 

[joecherry]

1847 large cent in Pekin, illinois. Thats tazewell county.
found it in my side yard, i live about 250 yards from the river by an old train station that now i believe is a sanitation company or water company something of the sort.
decent condition, hole drilled in the top.

 

[popdude]

Mine was a 1911 barber dime. It was in my back yard in montrose michigan... 2 days after i got my ace 250! The wife is mad lol... Still gotta learn to dig em up rite lol!!! Just started mding in September of 2012!!!! I'm a noob lol

 

[austin]

2 roman bronze coins in a coin shop a block from the British Museum, handfuls of reals on Texas beach when a kid(actually cousin found) I just carried, then buried and lost half a bucket of another load(I was only 10) so I guess these don't count. Real find was 1870 french coin, near Horsehead Crossing in Texas.

 

[Tony in Virginia]

I773 King George copper found James City County Virginia.

 

[baspinall]

168? Charles II Half Penny. SE Pennsylvania at a Tavern site.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...-century-again-168-charles-ii-half-penny.html

 

[port ewen ace]

1734 4over3 george II half penny port ewen ny 2in down site of new town hall 12/19/12

 

[JmCraz8]

Oldest coin I found was an 1864 and 65 2 cent pieces at an old locks and damm site, found it randomly not expecting anything from the 1800s I guess an old home use to sit there.

 

[kuger]

1770 real Caif

 

[tmanfromtexas]

My oldest coin came from a park in New Orleans LA. It was a 1797 2 reale Mexico City mint. It was about 8-9 inches deep. I can take you to exactly where I found it too, it seems that I can remember where I found all my old or first finds i.e. first barber first seated etc.

 

[kayden]

I found mine on a private a private property an 1864 IH on an old company owned coal miners town

 

[SusanMN]

My oldest coin is a 1891 seated dime found about three inches dirt/sand in the playground area of a local school. It was so corroded, it came out brown and crusted so I thought I'd found a corroded Lincoln cent. It wasn't until that evening when I cleaned out my pouch that I noticed it was smaller than a penny. Not much left to it after cleaning it but at least the date could be read. This is the only silver or even older coin I'd ever found at this site.

 

[gleaner1]

1770's Machins Mills not far from the house I grew up in, near an 1850's foundation along an old abandoned road. A buddy of mine that never used a tecter before found a early Canada copper token after ten minutes in the walls of the same foundation.

 

[Dimendave]

Just found a 1880 IH penny yesterday about a foot up under the edge of an old church built in 1852, Marion Co. Fl.